News

College of Teaching has training oversight ambitions

The proposed College of Teaching wants to be the “gatekeeper of standards for teacher training”, Angela McFarlane (pictured), a...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
News

New apprentice rules will squeeze school finances

Large schools and multi-academy trusts will be forced to employ new apprentices every year after new rules passed into...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
News

Teach First goes cross-country

Top graduates training under the Teach First scheme are less likely to be placed in London schools as the...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Less of a U-turn and more of a Z-turn

Do you remember last Saturday? It was boiling hot and the world was sunny – not least because Nicky...

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Nicky Phillips
News

Steiner school in financial notices to improve

A Steiner school that failed to submit its annual accounts and a university technical college and academy trust with...

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Nicky Phillips
News

Forced academisation looms for coasting councils

Nicky Morgan last week announced a u-turn over the government’s controversial proposals to force all schools to convert into...

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Nicky Phillips
News

Financial tipping point will force councils to academise

Proposals to academise all schools in what Nicky Morgan calls “unviable” councils will depend on whether a local authority...

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Nicky Phillips
News

£9.5m careers funding reaches schools in ‘cold spots’

Thirty-three careers programmes are to share a £9.5 million fund to run projects in areas of need across England....

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
News

Brexit vote threatens school building loans

Loans totalling hundreds of millions of pounds to build new schools in the UK could dry up should the...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips